Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The publication date of this post, December 1, 2020, marks the 20 th anniversary of our leadership development company, The Eblin Group. And the woman who gets it all done from customer relations to marketing to scheduling to program and product development is Diane. When the group’s energy is high, yours is high.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 30, 2022

Others are catchy branding slogans written by marketing. They were on a sacred mission and had a sizzling energy about them, one that transcended mundane description and was grounded in both a sense of their interconnection with the wider world and a vision of a better future they sought to realize. Drive your strategy and priorities?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

If we can recognize the patterns, we can improve our ability to sidestep the biological traps that can sabotage us—and use the energy that accompanies pressure to thrive. Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. Blog Post ). We need to make our interactions count.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2020

Solar energy is one of the best investments you can make for your business. According to Geo Green Power , specialists in large-scale commercial solar panel arrays, generating your own solar energy will significantly reduce your carbon footprint, increase your company’s sustainable credentials and improve your business reputation.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 8, 2013

I felt my energy shift. Many years later as I work with companies, I often wonder why most don’t feel energy around the vision they created. Ask them about the vision, and you were likely to get figures of ROI, market share, and other statistical facts and figures that leave you cold. The year was 2020. The possibility.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As per the reports of 2020, over 30 billion smart devices are connected to the internet. It can even connect to low-energy sensors. Technology has taken over your lives. This number includes computers, wearables, phones, and smart home elements. Presently, a tech category, the Internet of Things (IoT), has exploded in popularity.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2020

It’s not easy running a business in the best of times, yet almost no one on this Earth would be liable to label 2020 as ‘the best of times’ so far. Important marketing ideas that float to the top, or the attentiveness it takes for them to deal with a support request in the best way never comes out of a vacuum. Invest In Marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

It means energy turning point. (We In this transformation, we are witnessing the decarbonization of power consumption, thanks to the large-scale deployment of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. In 2016, renewable, intermittent energy sources contributed more than 30% to gross electricity generation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

A look at global trends such as energy demand should remind leaders of businesses small and large that what we do every day matters. Last year during Climate Week, my company took the opportunity to publicly announce a commitment to increase the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of our operations and product portfolio.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Americans — and American companies — have also connected the dots between clean energy and economic growth, with 87% last year saying that developing clean energy should be a priority for the President and Congress. In Colorado, the state renewable energy mandate was bumped up from 20% to 30% in 2010. The program delivered $1.6

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Cars are becoming more connected with each new model, driven by infotainment, navigation, safety, diagnostics, and fleet management. Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 The repercussions span industries and regions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

But since there’s no way Nissan could address the goal solely through its products, it also propels creativity in marketing in order to change how all of us drive. A surprising number reach for deep changes in the world, going well beyond the expected and narrower kind of goals like “reduce energy use 10%.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

The money collected will go to purchase Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) and carbon offsets , allowing Microsoft to declare itself carbon neutral. Microsoft seems more interested in lowering overall carbon emissions and energy use, not just neutrality in and of itself. Accountability throughout the organization. Risk reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

The trillion-dollar number is not random: The International Energy Agency (IEA) has estimated that the world needs to pour $36 trillion of investment into the clean economy between now and 2050 in order to keep the planet below the critical warming threshold of 3.6 coal market. degrees Fahrenheit (2 o C).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I have interviewed over 100 CEOs, C-suite executives, middle managers, and shop floor workers in more than 25 companies across the world to understand why most companies fail to embed sustainability in their business models and, also, what drives success among the handful that do.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The World Economic Forum predicts that “by 2020, more than a third of the desired core skill sets of most occupations will be comprised of skills that are not yet considered crucial to the job today.” New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

If I asked you to picture the consumer luxury market, you might imagine jewels, sports cars, watches, premium drinks, high-end shoes and apparel, and so on. Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo have produced movies and started organizations to tackle climate change and promote renewable energy. Now all the big brands are jumping in.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

In pursuit of this goal, I committed Desso to becoming 100% Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. Starting in our biggest business — carpet tiles — our managers and staff have gone through the grinding process of identifying every single chemical in our products. Sounds pretty idealistic, doesn't it? 1] McKinsey & Co.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For every liter of its beverage products (like Sprite, Dasani, teas, juices, and energy drinks) you’re drinking about a liter of the life-giving liquid. ” It’s a parallel concept to the carbon neutrality that many companies try to achieve by, for example, using renewable energy, planting trees, or buying carbon offsets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

That said, with 187 countries pledging collective action to cut carbon emissions, the deal will have vast repercussions for business , particularly as governments put into place policies to remake our energy, transportation, and building systems. Multi-trillion-dollar markets are in play and there will be many more winners than losers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

Sometimes, the measures managers use to guide their decisions stop making sense. Here's the upshot of that: because TV executives are encouraged to manage to that measure, they achieve better performance on paper but worse—wait for it—in reality. It's a problem that's rampant right now in the practice of capitalism.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Kram, the Shipley Professor in Management at the Boston University School of Management and author of Mentoring at Work. In their book, The 2020 Workplace , Meister and Willyerd talk about reverse mentoring in which a more junior person advises a senior person on things like new technology. So, do you need mentoring?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Long-range wireless : 3G wireless is now fairly standard around the world (with emerging markets being ahead of the U.S. This cuts down electricity by avoiding vampire energy. Netflix makes use of databases to manage inventory and user accounts. due to lack of legacy). Wireless connectivity is not just for phones (or voice).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Target raised its minimum wage to $11 this past fall and committed to $15 by 2020. Are these recent wage increases merely necessary in light of a tightening labor market, or could they start a broader trend that may change our economic growth trajectory? This is reflected in slowing growth expectations in many markets.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Google Fiber, as the effort was named, entered the access market intending to prove the business case for ultra-high-speed internet. After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

Survey-based reports find that firms are currently spending an estimated $36 billion on storage and infrastructure, and that is expected to double by 2020. Using a single price is economically inefficient because part of the demand curve that could be profitably served is priced out of the market. Improved pricing.

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HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Automation in Maritime industry is turning crew members into system managers. More people are becoming skeptical about choosing certain careers, while employers in some sectors are getting more assurance of not having to push so hard on talent management in the future. Mining automation market will reach $3.29 billion by 2023.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency. Trump Shocked the World.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Our company, Frontier Strategy Group, recently polled 20 Latin America general managers about Venezuela’s contributions to their regional revenues. Part of the decline can be explained by the sharp depreciation of the bolivar, but for the most part it reflects proactive decisions by multinationals to exit the market.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Of course, government aid is helping accelerate the transition, but given the economic boost that clean energy provides to many states, support for wind and solar looks relatively safe in Congress. They are, after all, the largest generation on the planet and will make up 50% of the global workforce by 2020. ” A Changing Climate.

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